When the stakes are high and time is short, those advocating interventionist economic policy have a stronger-than-usual case for urgent and direct action. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Washington ...

This is the third installment of RealClear Opinion Research’s continuing exploration of Pennsylvania public opinion. Once again, we’re drawing on a survey of 2,000 residents of Pennsylvania, conducted ...

The China Global Investment Tracker is the most complete public record of the country’s investment and construction worldwide, with more than 4,300 transactions from 2005 through 2022.

• The share of appraisal waivers for both GSEs combined for March 2026 stood at 28%, up from last month and down 21 ppts. from the series’ peak in March 2021. • The recent rise in waiver usage is ...

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Competition involving the Gulf states and Turkey in the Horn of Africa is exacerbating preexisting African conflicts and risking a regional proxy war on both sides of the Red Sea. A new era of ...

Researchers and decision makers in Beijing and the West pay close attention to many major Chinese population trends, including its pronounced sub-replacement fertility, its shrinking manpower totals, ...

The China economy field is full of people repeating the government’s numbers and “analyzing” them. If that’s sufficient, China watchers can just project a gradual fall from 5 percent GDP growth ...

Tomorrow is Earth Day 2022 and marks the 52nd anniversary of Earth Day, so it’s time for my annual CD post on the spectacularly wrong predictions that were made around the time of the first Earth Day ...

AI is evolving as a technology, as an industry, and as an instrument of national power. The early years of large language models were defined by a race to train ever-larger systems in centralized data ...

The first year of the second Trump administration has seen dramatic changes in immigration policy, resulting in a sharp slowdown in net migration to the United States. We expect the pattern of ...

President Biden wants credit for nominating the first Black woman to the Supreme Court. But here is the shameful irony: As a senator, Biden warned President George W. Bush that if he nominated the ...